Quran glossary · draft

أَقْطَار

regions

The plural spatial noun denotes outer regions or reaches of an expanse.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: قطر

Lemmas: أقطار

Forms: أَقْطَارِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

33:14

وَلَوْ دُخِلَتْ عَلَيْهِم مِّنْ أَقْطَارِهَا ثُمَّ سُئِلُوا۟ ٱلْفِتْنَةَ لَـَٔاتَوْهَا وَمَا تَلَبَّثُوا۟ بِهَآ إِلَّا يَسِيرًا

55:33

يَٰمَعْشَرَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنسِ إِنِ ٱسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَن تَنفُذُوا۟ مِنْ أَقْطَارِ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ فَٱنفُذُوا۟ لَا تَنفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَٰنٍ

Why this meaning was chosen

All five family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Two قِطْر nouns denote molten copper: it is poured over iron made fiery in 18:96 and made to flow as a spring for Solomon in 34:12. One قَطِرَان noun denotes pitch used as the condemned people's garment material. Two أَقْطَار nouns denote spatial regions of a city or of the heavens and earth. Case, definiteness, construct relation, possession, and number compose within each set. Quran-internal substitution fails: spatial regions can be entered from or passed beyond but cannot be poured onto heated iron, while the flowing metal cannot serve as those traversable regions; the pitch garment term is a distinct material lexeme and cannot name the spring of molten copper or the regions. The pitch and region sets are therefore lexical-collision branches. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.